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El Ciego Melquiades

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Styles: Tex-Mex

Biography: El Ciego Melquiades, also known as "the blind fiddler," was the name used on recordings by Melquiades Rodriguez. He recorded both vocal and instrumental numbers in the late 1930s in San Antonio, playing in the fiddle-dominated style that was already falling out of fashion with Mexican-American audiences ...Read full biography

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?San Antonio House Party?

Released: 2002

Label: Arhoolie Productions

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Although El Ciego Melquiades did play on some numbers with vocals, all 20 of the tracks on this compilation are instrumental, all but two of them recorded from 1935 to 1938 (the final two songs were done ...Read full review

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